{"id":409010,"date":"2026-07-23T04:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409010\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T04:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:18:37","slug":"beloved-bakersfield-restaurant-uricchios-closes-for-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409010\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Bakersfield restaurant Uricchio\u2019s closes for summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Uricchio&#8217;s Trattoria, one of the fine-dining stalwarts of downtown Bakersfield, is taking a summer vacation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Italian restaurant at 17th and K streets in the historic Haberfelde building, will take the rest of the summer months off, according to owner Claire Porter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Tacos Mi Pa opens in downtown Bakersfield;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/food\/tacos-mi-pa-opens-in-downtown-bakersfield\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Tacos Mi Pa opens in downtown Bakersfield\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The restaurant hit a noteworthy milestone in 2025 \u2014 30 years, a lifetime in the notoriously harsh world of restaurant startups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Porter is the daughter of the late Nick Uricchio, who founded the restaurant in 1995 after sharpening his fine-dining skills at the famous Friar&#8217;s Club in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No word on exactly when Uricchio&#8217;s will return from its summer break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Uricchio&#8217;s Trattoria, one of the fine-dining stalwarts of downtown Bakersfield, is taking a summer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,1048,163945,69051,163944],"class_list":["post-409010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-downtown-bakersfield","tag-nick-uricchio","tag-summer-vacation","tag-uricchios-trattoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}